More secure communications thanks to quantum physics

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 02:31 in Physics & Chemistry

One of the recent revelations by Edward Snowden is that the U.S. National Security Agency is currently developing a quantum computer. Physicists aren’t surprised by this news; such a computer could crack the encryption that is commonly used today in no time and would therefore be highly attractive  for the NSA.

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